Pipeline Maps Still a ‘Work in Progress’

From PA Post (https://papost.org/):

In Pennsylvania, only 11 percent of pipelines are mapped and disclosed to the public:  transmission lines, the larger major pipelines. Smaller lines aren’t shown in a federal database where people can access transmission line maps.

The natural gas pipeline that exploded last week in Beaver County — demolishing one house, forcing people to evacuate 25 other homes and destroying several cars and barns — was a “gathering pipeline,” built to feed two major ETP pipelines, the Rover pipeline and the Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids line.

Afterward, a spokesman for the PUC (which is investigating the blast) said mapping more of the lines remains a “work in progress” more than two years after a state task force recommended updating and publishing more pipeline maps.